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Posted on 08/01/2026 3:25:04 AM PDT by TheDon
The arrest and detainment of a Johns Hopkins researcher is one of the latest examples of increased immigration enforcement at airports.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrested Fatima Ameaka at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport this week as she was boarding a plane to Florida.
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For the past two years, Ameaka has been working to improve how communities respond to infectious disease crises, such as measles outbreaks.
She's a senior analyst at the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, which operates out of Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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In a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a spokesman said Ameaka, who's from Cameroon, overstayed a visa that expired in 2024.
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Just think of all the great things she will be able to accomplish for her people in Cameroon.
Great job ICE....making Cameroon great again!
A senior analyst but not bright enough to renew their expired visa? Bye.
Get ALL of them OUT OF HERE!!
I’ve run into a problem with the way third-worlders interact with the rest of us. If they say something is so, then it is so. She apparently decided the fact that she had a job and probably paid taxes meant she was a US citizen. Therefore, she could ignore legal niceties like renewing a visa, which expired. If she had gone to renew the visa it would be an admission that she wasn’t a citizen and that would put her new world view of being a citizen in jeopardy. By ignoring the renewal, she was confirming her belief that she was a citizen. This is the “if I believe something than everyone else has to believe it to” paradigm.
When she was confronted by ICE I’d guess she was truly shocked and insisted they were wrong. She probably said something like, “But I have an important job, a house, and I pay taxes.” When the third-worlder’s fantasy collides with the government’s immovable object they stop processing rationally and can turn violent. That violence is their way of defending their fantasy world view. I’m not saying she turned violent. But you often see it which is why we see shootings. And, yes, the liberal white women cosplaying as revolutionaries who ram ICE agents are also living in a fantasy world.
Its “Magical thinking”.
Center for Outbreak Response Innovation
Sounds very essential.
No where in the article do they state she’s here illegally but she’s beloved.....over staying a visa is ILLEGAL.
“ Ameaka has been working to improve how communities respond to infectious disease crises, such as measles outbreaks”
…measles brought back to America by illegals like Ameaka.
BIG or small deport them all
For the past two years, Ameaka has been working to improve how communities respond to infectious disease crises, such as measles outbreaks
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This is great. You know why? They are too stupid to even read what they write.
Communities don’t need to “respond” to measles outbreaks in the first place, IF we keep the borders secure and prevent hordes of illegals from pouring across our borders. Plenty of Americans can fill this role in any event.
The first casualty of open borders is infectious disease control. It isn’t “xenophobia” or racism to maintain public health. It’s one the first duties of government.
Wow. I looked up magical thinking. The problem I’ve run into with third-worlders is they never grew out of it. What is posted below is obviously about western world people. It is astonishing that anyone with magical thinking could ever be a reliable researcher. Bad on her employers.
Magical thinking — the tendency to believe that thoughts, words, or actions can directly influence events in the world — is a normal part of early childhood development. It typically emerges between ages 2–4 and peaks between 3–5 years, when children are in Jean Piaget’s preoperational stage Resto NYC+1.
When it starts and peaks
Emergence: Around toddlerhood (ages 2–4), children begin to form beliefs that defy strict cause-and-effect logic, such as wishing hard enough to make something happen or believing objects have intentions Resto NYC+1.
Peak: Ages 3–5 is when magical thinking is most common, with examples like personifying toys, believing coincidences have meaning, or thinking unrelated events are connected Resto NYC+1.
When it declines
Gradual fade: As children develop logical reasoning skills, magical thinking steadily declines. By about age 4–5, “reality thinking” begins to replace it scienceinsights.org.
Around age 10: Many developmental psychologists note that magical thinking should start to wane around this age, though it may linger in some children The Conversation.
Adolescence and adulthood: Even in teens and adults, elements of magical thinking can persist — for example, in superstitions, lucky rituals, or seeking patterns in random events Resto NYC+1.
Why it fades
The decline is linked to cognitive maturation, particularly the development of:
Cause-and-effect reasoning
Object permanence and external reality awareness
Scientific thinking that overrides wishful or non-logical explanations Resto NYC+1.
Bottom line
Magical thinking peaks in early childhood (3–5 years) and declines gradually through school-age years, with most children outgrowing it by around age 10, though some traces may remain into adulthood Resto NYC+2.
For the past two years, Ameaka has been working to improve how communities respond to infectious disease crises, such as measles outbreaks.
She’s a senior analyst at the Center for Outbreak Response Innovation, which operates out of Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Sounds to me like Ameka should have known better.
Magical thinking isn’t confined to 3rd worlders, don’t be fooled.
It is part and parcel of Progressive philosophy. If we all believe hard enough, then it will happen. “Men can get pregnant!” or a gazillion other fairy tales.
I worked in my Tier 1 manufacturing company's corporate HR years ago. One day, a contract employee from Britain, who worked for one of our satellite companies in the midwest, called up corporate to plead his case that that company fired him because his work visa had expired and he hadn't provided them with proof of renewal. He blamed it on the govt. that was delaying it.
We said sorry to hear that but you're still fired. Once your visa is renewed, contact the plant and if they still need you, they will probably rehire you.
Good bye
As a post script, the president of our frame division was a Canadian and our legal dept. would usually take care of his visa renewals.
Companies can be held strictly liable under U.S. federal law for knowingly hiring or continuing to employ individuals with expired visas or invalid work authorization.
For the past two years, Ameaka has been working to improve how communities respond to infectious disease crises, such as measles outbreaks
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Heck, do we really need such studies anyway?
I, like everybody of my age, am measles “survivor”.
Believe me, it was nothing worst than a flu.
“When she was confronted by ICE I’d guess she was truly shocked and insisted they were wrong.”
A good observation, she is reminding of the typical domestic libtard that they are superior beings compared to ‘the little people’ as we know it and place themselves above the typical illegal.
I certainly do not trust the Congress/Senate to do a thing about about all the illegals they have enabled over the years and gave them benefits so here we are, but I only blame her 50%. The other half is the Legislative Branch and would deport all of them to an island in the middle of the ocean surrounded by sharks and no airport, no kickbacks, stock trading, etc. Maybe then we would see some progress.
(And did the this US squatter vote too?)
There is also the mindset that there are only “world citizens” . Sovereign laws don’t exist in their mind.
She can now help the citizens of Cameroon now. It could make things better in the world.
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